Toilet-paper package.



GULTELMO GOTTINI & GIROLAMO GOTTINI.

TOILET PAPER PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED mmzz, 1914.

mm q m WITNESSES:

Patented July 21, 1914:,

5 M 6R ,5 M i? INVENTORO;

ATTORNEY Ill ' sheets.

GULIELMO COTTINI, OF SPRINGFIELD, AND GIROLAMO CQT'IQINI,

MASSfiGHUSETTS.

TOILET-PAPER PACKAGE.

Application filed January 22, .1914. Serial No. 813,697.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, acre,

To all whom it may concern: Be 1t known that we, GULInLMo Co'r'rINI;

and GIRoLAMo COTTINI, both citizens of the; 'United States of America,said -GUIJ.ELMO:

and useful Toilet-Paper Package, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements toilet paper or in toilet paperbundles or; packages, wherein detachable sheets are associated together,and from which bundles or packages said sheets are to be removedindividually and sequentially from the front thereof, and said inventionconsists of a plurality of sheets, each of which is folded to form along lap and a short lap or flap, attached to a suitable holder whichengages the long laps only, and having each short lap attached to thelong lap in front, with the exception of theinitial front short lap, tothe end that the withdrawal of the outer sheet will, through the mediumof its connection with the short lap immediately behind, turn down suchlast-mentioned lap in readiness to be grasped for the detaching of whatwas the second sheet, but .which has now itself become the, outer orfront sheet.

The invention also includes means to prevent the long laps from-tearinin such a manner, when severed or forcib y detached from the holder, asto leave irregular and unsightly fragments in the grasp of said holder.

l The objects of our invention are, first, to

economize in the manufacture and use of toilet paper, while at the sametime pro-- viding a package from which the paper can be easily andconvenientl detached, sheet by sheet, as required, an second, to pro-'duce such a package from which the sheets can be removed without leavingattached to the holder for such package large and irregular fragments tocollect dust and dirt, impair the appearance of the package, or reduceunduly the size of the detached This second object pr advantage isespecially important when the paper is cut so that the grain or fiberthereof extends laterally instead of lengthwise of the sheet, which. isusually the case with the toilet .tween the outer or paper of thepresent invention.

Other objects and advantages will appear in .the course of the followingdescription.

We attain the objects and secure the advantages of our invention by themeans illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-- 1 .Figure .1is a front elevation of a toilet aper package which embodies a preferredorm of our invention, the outer, front or foremost sheet having beentorn from the holder and being ready to be detached from thesecondsheet; Fi 2, a rear-elevation of such package, and, ig. 3, aned e orside elevation thereof, conventionalize by spacing the sheets and laps,for the purpose of showing clearly the construction.

Similar figures refer to signilar parts throughout the several views.

As shown inthe drawings, our package consists of a plurality of sheetsof toilet paper, each sheet being folded up from the ottom so that itconsists of a long lap 1 behind and a short lap 2 in front. "With theexception of the short la 2 of the front sheet, each lap 2 is ,attac ednear the top to the contiguous portion of the long lap 1 in front of it,by somesuitable means, as oneor more particles or drops 3 of paste orgum, such drops of. aste or gum being beront face of the short ,lap andthe inner or back side of the long lap. The attachment between the longand short laps mustbe weaker in each case than is the. paper at the laceof suspension-or attachment to a hol or or combined binder and holder,as 4, in order .to ,enable any given long lap, after beingtorn from suchholder, to be detached from the short lap behind, without tearing from,said holder the sheet of which said short lap forms a part, as will bemore clearly explained .hereinafter. A binder for the long lap l, whichbihder may also serve as a holder for the package, must be provided andmay be of any suitable and approved type, that shown all 4: consistingof a pair of prongs 5 which are passed through the long laps 1, of thepackage, from behind and a short distance below the upper edges of saidlaps, and then carried or bent up and over such upper edges, and downbehind said package, as clearly illustrated in the drawings. There is anopening6, in the holder 4:, by means of which said holder with thepackage is suslap 1, to which the aforesaid short lap 2 is has beenturned or drawn down, so that the drops 3 are on what is now the backside thereof. The part that was the upper portion of the long lap 1 ofthe first sheet drops downward in front of lower portions of such lap,from the attaching drops 3 and from behind and beneath the bottom edgeportion of the short lap-2 of the second sheet, such drooping portionbeing indicated at 12.

As already noted, the drops 3 are not tenacious enough to permit thesecond sheet, or any sheet, to be torn 0d at the top by reason offailure on the part of the sheets to separate at such drops under the reular downward pull, and this in spite of the weakness produced by thecuts 9. The sheets pull apart at the drops 3 without tearing.

From the foregoing it is plainly seen that, with the minimum amountpended from a hook or other support. The prongs 5 enter the package at7, Fig. 2, and emerge from such package at 8, Fig. 1.

The paper strip, out of which our packages are made, is foldedlongitudinally, or with the fibers extending lengthwise of such strip,and then cut across into package widths, which locates the fiberscrosswise of the sheets. This is the only practical way of producing thepackages, including the application of the gum. Owing to the lateraldirection of the fibers or grain in the sheets, the latter when torn offwould ordinarily leave behind, either attached to the holder or free tocome fluttering to the floor, jagged pieces of some length, andsometimes even the entire top portion of a sheet would be left, thusmaterially shortening such sheet. To overcome this disadvantage, weprefer to weaken the laps 1 adjacent to or on both sides of the portionsthat are direetly attached to the holder, or through which the prongs 5pass. This may be done by cutting through the laps 1, from their upperedges, on both sides of the vertical central plane thereof, down topoints which are a short distance below the horizontal plane of theopenings or slits represented by the numerals 7 and 8. The aforesaidvertical cuts are parallel, of equal lengths, and represented at 9- inFigs. 1 d 2. With sheets conveniently arranged for ready detachment andof suitable or adequate size.

I We are aware that folded sheets have been incorporated in packagesbefore, and that attachments have been employed for the purpose ofpulling down a part of each subsequent sheet, but in every such case allof the laps have been of the same or practically the same size, and bothlaps of a sheet have been attached directly to the holder, thusrequiring that two laps be detached from such holder whenever a sheet iswithdrawn and before it'is separated from the following sheet. Such aconstruction or arrangement required that the adhesive or other form ofattachment between sheets be so strong that there was grave danger ofpulling down from the holder an endless amount of paper or number ofsheets, without any separation between sheets taking place.

We make no claim for toilet paper or a toilet paper package made in themanner just explained.

As already intimated, some style or type of binder, holder, or combinedbinder and holder, other than that herein shown and described, may besubstituted therefor; moreover, some variation in the shape, size,arrangement, and construction of our package and paper may be made,without departing from the nature of our invention.

\Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a toilet paper packagecomprising a pluralit of sheets, each folded upon itself to orm a longlap and a short lap, attaching means between the short lap of one sheetand the long lap of the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for thelong laps only of said sheets, such first-mentioned attaching meansbeing weaker than the sheet an these cuts 9 present, when a sheet ispulled from the holder 4, it tears only between the lower ends of thecuts 9, and the tear is fairly straight and even.- A' rectangular piece10 is left attached to the holder i, and a corresponding recess 11 ismade in the top of the sheet removed-see Fig. 1.

In practice, assuming that the holder 4 with its package is suspended inthe usual manner, the short lap 2 of the sheet on the front of suchpackage is turned down, if it be not already in that position, as shownin Figs. 2 and 3, grasped and pulled. The first result of the pull is totear the long integrally attached, away from the tab portion 10 of suchlong lap, and the second resultgof such pull is to carry down with suchlongdapthe short lap 2 behind, that is, the short lap of the secondsheet, and to separate such long lap from said second sheet short lap,to which latter the former is attached by the drops 3 of adhesivematerial. The first sheet is now free for use, and the short lap 2, ofwhat was the second sheetin the package, but is now the first, is lefthanging in readiness to be grasped for the detachment of the new firstor front sheet. This operation is repeated until the package isexhausted.

In the first view, the first sheet is represented as having beendetached from the holder and about to be detached from the short lap ofthe second sheet, which lap of paper, we are able to produce packagescontaining 11,104,414 p t m to form along lap and a short lap, and outinwardly a short'distance from its upper edge to form a partiallydetached member, attaching means between the short lap of 20 one sheetand the long lap of the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for thepartially detached members of the long laps, such first-mentionedattaching means being Weaker than the paper at the junction be 25 tweenthe long lap and its partially detached member, in any iven case.

ULIELMO COTTINI. GIROLAMO COTTIN I.

at its place of attachment to said secondmentioned attaching means.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a toilet paper packagecomprising a 5 plurality of sheets, each folded upon itself to form along lap and a short lap, and cu inwardly a short distance from itsupper edge to form a partially detached member,

attaching means between the short lap of 10 one sheet and the long lapof the next adjacent sheet, and attaching means for the partiallydetached members of the long laps.

p 3. As an improved article of manufac- 15 ture, a toilet paper package,comprising a plurality of sheets, each folded upon itself Witnesses:

OLIVE A. VAN WORMER, A. C. FAIRBAN'Y

